Everton vs. West Brom Everton welcome West Brom in their first home match of the season, with the visitors being nipped by a single goal at home to the saints last weekend. Are Everton a tad short at 4/6? Best match odds: · Everton – 4/6 Ladbrokes · Draw – 16/5 BetVictor · West Brom – 21/4 As stated Everton are best price 4/6 with the magic sign and as short as 11/20 in places. Backers on Everton, please check prices on thatsagoal.com for the best possible return. Everton have form against West Brom in respect of only dropping four points from a possible twenty one thus seven games at Goodison Park. West Brom themselves have struggled to score on the road especially four of the last six Premier League games on the road. A credit to Everton, that they came from behind to take the lead last Saturday before being caught out on 71minutes, which saw the game head for the score draw. West Brom were taken in injury time, which was looking towards a draw and being so early in the season it is difficult to call. What is clear is that Everton maintained a great home record last season conceding only seventeen goals in the process, so in our opinion, with West Brom struggling on the road for goals, this has fewer than three goals written over this! Recommendations: · Under 2.5 goals – 21/20 Coral Hull vs. Norwich The newbies get their first home game of the campaign, and what better than to welcome Norwich. Best match odds: · Hull – 6/4 Coral · Draw – 12/5 Bet365 · Norwich – 21/10 BetVictor Hull will have to take games against potential lower half opposition with the view of taking points, if they want to remain in the Premier League. Their home form will be a deciding factor, because if you cannot win in front of your home fans, you may as well go home now! Norwich fought to a score draw with Everton at the weekend with a terrific header taking it to a four goal game. Hull were outclassed versus Chelsea, who looked professional in their 2-0 win on Sunday! To be fair on Hull, they resisted the Chelsea attack to maintain a 2-0 loss, so by no means the worse result they could have got. This game has one markets paws over this fixture! Hull have to think about getting on the score sheet and Norwich will have the resilience to know they can pocket a point if they want to. Bookies view this game as 10/11 either way on both teams scoring in some places. Paddy Power go 11/10 one or neither score, but this fixture, even early on has to see goals. We are comfortable enough with Norwich scoring, but Hull have to make their Premiership mark! Recommendation: · Both teams to score – 10/11 Coral Newcastle Vs. West Ham Newcastle suffered a heavy loss at Manchester City, where even the French resistance was not enough. West Ham are in high spirits after a win to nil versus Cardiff. Best match odds: · Newcastle – 13/10 Will Hill · Draw – 12/5 Paddy Power · West Ham - 5/2 BetVictor The bookies seem to all agree on the 12/5 price on the draw being a strong outcome, and it is hard to look past the draw. Psychologically we are not programmed to pick draws, hence why sitting on the fence is more difficult than it seems. West Ham last season were poor on the road picking up just thirteen from a possible fifty-seven points, which suggested their home form was very important. No team scored fewer goals on the road than West Ham last season with just eleven. It is worth noting Newcastle drew just one game last season at home, and scored a small margin over a goal a game. We have no hesitance in taking a low scoring affair, with BetVictor hopefully making us the victor at 20/23, mainly due to the overall volume of goals ratio! Recommendation: · Under 2.5 goals – 20/23 BetVictor Southampton vs. Sunderland Southampton will relish the chance to make it 2/2 in making their way towards and past that forty point survival mark for another season in the Premiership. Yes this is game two and you are probably thinking, what is Dave talking about? The points in the bag early ease pressure and Southampton can register a second win in succession. Best match odds: · Southampton – 4/5 Coral · Draw – 14/5 BetVictor · Sunderland – 4/1 Paddy Power There has been vibe that this could be Sunderland’s danger year if they are not careful of sliding out the top flight. An inexperienced manager at this level and a lack of goals has a likely formula of disaster! Southampton have scored just three goals in their last six Premier League matches and will look to make amends of this, from a certain Rickie Lambert! Sunderland on the other hand have lost six of the last seven Premiership games on the road, picking up just one win in the process. Southampton took the injury time winner, but you have to win, can they be backed with so few goals behind them in recent times? Our opinion is yes on the basis that they have turned a corner, have good investment and have some quality in the side including Lambert motivated as ever in the hope he will make the cut to the World Cup next year. He will have to perform to keep in contention and is 11/8 with Paddy Power to get on the score sheet. We think though that Southampton have enough in the bag to pull off a win! Recommendation: · Southampton to win – 4/5 Coral Stoke Vs. Crystal Palace Crystal Palace have been targeted by pundits as being the potential for being very bad, but they were respectable against Spurs at the weekend. Stoke had the chance when they were awarded a penalty, but missed via a good save from the Liverpool keeper. Best match odds · Stoke – 11/13 888sport · Draw – 13/5 BetVictor · Palace – 4/1 BetVictor Palace boss Ian Holloway has been charged with misconduct after the game with Spurs and may have appealed successfully by the time you read this! If anyone knows how to battle at the wrong end of the table it is resourceful Ian Holloway! Stoke are another candidate for a team where there Premier League survival has been questioned after being considered a mid-table team after successive seasons with Tony Pulis. Now Pulis is out and Hughes is in, his credentials have some critics questioning whether he is good enough to be managing in the top flight. Our indication was heading towards a low scoring affair, as Stoke’s success has been their home success picking up twenty six of their forty six points up last season at home. If Palace are able to play like they did against Spurs, a low scoring game will be the outcome. However the bookmakers are just 7/10 on fewer than three goals. We looked at under 1.5 goals, but with little appeal at just 2/1 for the result expecting 23/10. A race to two goals could be interesting in that neither team to score two goals is 13/10 at Ladbrokes and could be the way forward as an alternative to fewer than 2.5 goals! Recommendation: · A race to two goals: Neither team - 13/10 Ladbrokes